E-mail Spam, anyone?

Eagle

Lifetime NAXJA Member
NAXJA Member
Location
Terra Firma
Does the following look at all familiar to anyone?

URGENT AND CONFIDENCIAL

My contact Email:> [email protected]



(RE: TRANSFER OF ($26,000.000.00USD) TWENTY SIX MILLION DOLLARS)

Dear Sir,

We want to transfer to overseas $26,000.000.00 USD, Twenty Six Million United States dollars, from a bank in Africa. I want to ask you to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing Bank account or to set-up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end of this important business, trusting you and believing in God that you will never let me down either now or in the future.

I am FELTUX PAUL. The auditor General of a Bank in Africa, during the course of our auditing I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in
the Bank in 1990 and since 1993 nobody has operated on this account again, after going through some old files, in the records I discovered that the owner of the account died without a (heir) hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing.

The owner of this account is MR. DENIS LEWIS, a foreigner, and he died since 1993 and no other person knows about this account or anything concerning it except his personal secretary whom I will be working this out with, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well, that MR. DENIS LEWIS until his death was the Director of DENS CRUISE. (pty) .SA.

We will start the first transfer with ten million dollars ($10,000.000, 00.USD) upon successful transaction without any disappointment from your side; we shall re-apply for another bit of the funds to your account.

The amount involved in the account is ($26,160,238.22) I want to first transfer ($10M.USD) from this money into a safe foreigners account abroad, I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person here, but can only be approved to any foreigner, because the money is in US dollars and the former owner of the account MR DENIS LEWIS is a foreigner too and the money can only be approved into a foreign account.

However we will sign a binding agreement to bind us together, I got your contact address from the computer operator at the chamber of commerce, I am revealing this to you with the believe in God that you will never let me down in this business. You are the first and the only one that I have contacted for this business so please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take.

I need your full co-operation to make this work fine. Because the management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has the correct information of this account, I need your strong assurance that you will never ever let me down.

With my influence and position, we can transfer this money to any foreigners reliable account, which you can provide with assurance that the money will be intact pending our physical arrival in your country for sharing. I will use my position and influence to obtain all legal approvals for onward transfer of this money to your account with appropriate clearance from foreign exchange departments.

I shall destroy all document of transaction immediately we receive this money leaving no trace to any place.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 28% of the total amount, 70% for me and my partner, while 2% will be for expenses both parties might have incurred during the process of the transferring.

I look forward to your earliest reply by Email:> [email protected]

Yours truly,

FELTUX PAUL

Aside from the questionable morality of a bank auditor who wants to make off with the bank's funds ("legally"), there's the issue of (a) how did he find *me* in the Woodbridge Chamber of Commerce, since we don't have one, and (b) if this is so legal, why is it so important that he destroy all the records when the transaction has been completed?

Anyone else get this one? Feel free to follow up on it. If you do receive 28% of $26 million, I'll take 10% as my finder's fee :D
 
Admit it -- you're just jealous 'cause ole Feltux Paul didn't get YOUR name from the chamber of commerce.
 
Here you go Eagle Nigerian Scam

It's a common one, I've gotten it a few times (from different contries to boot). That wepage up there is an intersting one as well, it's all about Urbane legonds, e-mail hoaxs, all that...I've spent DAYS on taht site!

www.snopes.com

Sequoia
 
Well, I know you guys are rich so no one would notice. But if $10,000,000 suddenly showed up in my bank account, I can guarantee I would be getting a visit from someone!!

I've read about this scam many times - it's amazing that people fall for it. I'd like to know which God this guy subscribes to, since most of the ones I'm familiar with don't condone theft.

The internet is great, ain't it!
 
I can't find the source now, but I read a hilarious account a few months ago from someone who decided to call their bluff, and began an exchange of letters, in which he appeared to be arranging to go to Europe or wherever, and complete the deal. But every time the Nigerians (who kept forgetting which of their various handles they were using, making this even more bizarre) asked for something, he would put up another obstacle - he played them for months, often with irony obvious to almost anyone except perhaps for the Nigerians, until it appeared that he really was going to meet them, whereupon they backed out. The entire exchange was on the website, and was pretty funny.
 
Back
Top